A virtuous soul like Mattie would be crushed in a contemporary gold rush even if (or especially if) she fought back with the kind of civil action so prized by the 19th-century Mattie.
Socrates' particular deployment of this general strategy suggests that good actions are those that sustain the virtuous soul (443e) and that the virtuous soul is the one with a maximally unified set of commitments (443d-e, cf. 534b-c).
Choice (or: Selection) of Jewels; or Mivhar ha-Penînîm, Choice of Pearls, in its Hebrew translation),[9] a collection of maxims aimed at cultivating a virtuous soul.
Like the Greeks, the Essenes believe that the more virtuous souls have reserved for them, somewhere beyond the sea, a final place of retirement, where there is no snow or rain or heat, and which is always refreshed by a gentle breeze, while the baser ones will be committed to a murky and turbulent dungeon, where they will suffer eternal torment.
And those virtuous souls who keep their cards in their wallets can't escape either.
Aristotle says that the non-rational part of a virtuous person's soul "speaks with the same voice" (homophônei, Nicomachean Ethics 1102b28) as the rational part.
That the virtuous person's soul is unified and not torn by conflict distinguishes the state of being virtuous from various non-virtuous conditions such as continence (enkrateia), incontinence (akrasia), and vice (kakia) in general.
No embodied soul is perfectly unified: even the virtuous person, who makes her soul into a unity as much as she can (443c-e), has three parts in her soul.
The analogue of the virtuous individual with her tripartite soul is the ideal state, the Republic, with its three parts or classes, rulers, warriors and laborers, all working in harmony with one another under the auspices of the ruler, i.e., reason.
The virtuous person will be one who has all three parts of her soul working in a harmonious fashion, i.e., her reason, cognizant of the Form of the Good and the other Forms, will with the support and consent of her appetite and spirit govern all of her pursuits.
Virtuous non-Christian souls may go to Elysian fields and ultimately may be converted to Christianity and so be saved.
